Marriage Notes for Roy Boyd and Rosa MCMILLAN-265257
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George Miller, who arrived in Oregon withhis wife and ten children in late
October of 1847, did not live long enough to prosper and enjoy his new home.
He died 16 May 1853 on the claim at Creswell, Oregon and was probably the first
person buried in what in now the Creswell Cem.
He was born in Tennessee, Sept of 1804, the oldest son of Catherine and
John Miller, Jr. who had married in Carter Co., Tenn. in 1797. There three
older children in the family, daughters Sarah, Mary and Elizabeth.
The parents of John Miller, Jr. are unknown. One family records Catherine
Miller married John Miller of Pennsylvania. Their first children, Sarah was
born in Pennsylvania accodring to Census records. There are several Miller
families living in the Crab Orchard, Tennessee area in the late 1700's, some of
whom had come from Pennsylvania and it is possible that he was a relative of
one of those.
George Miller's mother, Catherine, was one of the two daughters of John
Miller, (b.1753) and his wife, Mary Keene. They were living near Crab Orchard,
in Carter Co., Tennessee when Catherine married John Miller Jr., and her
sisters, Elizabeth Miller married Samuel Stover. In the early 1800s the
Stovers moved to eartern Indiana. In 1814 Samuel Stover and John Miller
settled on adjoining land in what is now Union Co., Ind. There John Miller Jr.
died in 1821 leaving a will which provided for his wife Catherine and for the
"raising and Schooling of my young children". There were eight children, the
three older girls, then George, David, John, Henry and Isaac. Samuel Stover,
John Miller Jr's brother in law, was named executor of the estate and guardian
of the young children.
In March term of court in Union Co., Ind. 1822, George Miller, "Orphan of
John Miller, deceased, who being a junior within the age of twenty one years
and fourteen years of age" appeared to request that his mother Catherine
Miller, be his guardian to replace Samuel Stover. This was done and she was
also appointed guardian of the younger brothers, David, John, Henry and isaac.
Abraham Miller gave security for her bond. George Miller's sisters, being of
age at this time, were not named in the petition for guardianship.
At the October term of court in the same year (1822) Samuel Stover appeared
to report the death of Catherine Miller and to give an inventory of the John
Miller estate. He was again appointed guardian of the younger boys, Isaac, the
youngest, the only two year old when his mother died.
Elizabeth Hiatt was the daughter of Stephen and Rachel (Hiatt) Hiatt who
were third cousins and part of a large Quaker Family, who had moved to Indiana
from North Carolina where Elizabeth was born. Though she was disowned from the
scoiety of Friends in January 1830 because of her marriage to George Miller in
a civil ceremony, she lived and practiced the Quaker ways all of her life.
It is evident that George Miller, having lost his parents, chose to
follow his uncles, his mother's brothers, George Sr., John, Isaac and Abraham
in their successive moved westward. The families were in Montgomery Co., Ind.
in the early 1830s and then on to Illinois wher Eliel Miller, fifth child of
George and Elizabeth Miller, was born in Mercer Co., Ill in 1837. He was named
after Eliel Hiatt, younger brother of Elizabeth.
Some of the family wintered in Missouri 1846-1847 and the group started
for Oregon in the spring. Family tradition tells us that the family began the
long were a number of Miller families traveling together including two of
george Miller's brothers, John whose wife died before reaching Oregon, leaving
two children and Isaac the youngest. He was included witht he George Miller
Family in the 1850 US Federal Census of Linn Co., Oregon as was oen other
brother, probably Henry, but the initial is not clear on the census and the
exact identity is not known.
George Miller and his family spent the first winter near Oregon City,
where some of th men worked in a saw mill, then moved to Linn Co. where they
were living near Miller relatives at the time of the 1850 census. George
Miller went to California after gold was discovered, but how long he stayed is
not known. It is known that he contracted "lung fever" while there which
caused his death in 1853.
The family settled on a claim at the present site of Creswell in Lane
County, in 1852. David, the oldest child of George and Elizabeth, took a claim
near that of his father. The youngest child, George Thurston Miller, the only
one of eleven children born in Oregon, was just two years old when his father
died in 1853.
Elizabeth Hiatt Miller brought up her family and lived in Creswell for the
remainder of her life. She died on the claim in January of 1875 and was buried
beside her husband.
(886.) ELIZABETH HIATT (253.) (42.) (6.) (2.) (1.):
b. 14-5mo-1807; no further record.
Unmarried
Sent by Teddy Hiatt. Found in HH book.
(6138.) PATRICIA LEE HIATT (4652.) (2620.) (940.) (276.) (49.) (6.) (2.) (1.):
b. 12-lmo-1926, St. Joseph, Buchanan Co., Mo.; m. ARTHUR W. BOWERS. (R144).